Re: [xsl] xmlns in the root element prevents transformation

Subject: Re: [xsl] xmlns in the root element prevents transformation
From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 05:49:54 -0000
On Fri, 2020-07-24 at 03:40 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev
dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> One can find questions and answers like this from so many people ...

Overall the "wilful violation of the XPath spec" done by Web browsers,
so that unprefixed names would match local names associated with any or
no namespace, makes a lot of sense, although you can't then epxplicitly
match an element in no namespace without e.g. using a predicate.


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